Ajdukiewicz's contribution to the realism/idealism debate
pp. 67-85
in: Klemens Szaniawski (ed), The Vienna circle and the Lvov-Warsaw school, Berlin, Springer, 1989Abstract
In this paper I will present Ajdukiewicz's analysis of the idealist claims that can be found in three articles and one book: "A semantical version of the problem of transcendental idealism" (Polish original 1937), "Epistemology and semiotics' (Polish original 1948), Problems and Theories of Philosophy (Polish original 1949), "On the notion of existence: some remarks connected with the problem of idealism" (1949–1950)1. In my exposition I want to be faithful to what Ajdukiewicz says, but in order to give as concise and clear a summary as possible, I have standardized somewhat the formulations of the idealist claims which Ajdukiewicz analyses in his different papers.
